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The following is a summary of the Mercy Beam Technology for the convenience of journalists and bloggers who wish to cover this game changing discovery.

What is Mercy Beam?

The “Mercy Beam™” introduces a sophisticated lens that collects most of the X-rays emanating divergently out of any standard x-ray tube (currently used for x-ray imaging) and converges it towards a tumor location. The lens simultaneously removes low-energy photons that would be absorbed by the patient’s skin. The convergence increases the therapeutic dose delivered at the tumor location, while the organs in the vicinity of the tumor receive a very low dose or no dose at all. The converging technology enables the use of photon-energy x-rays 100 times lower than those used by current systems which are based on Linear Accelerators (LINACs).

The challenge in cancer treatment

Until a definite cure for cancer is found, all types of this terrible disease will continue to be treated with drugs (chemotherapy) and radiation therapy. Radiation therapy treatments, as they are given today, have many limitations:

They use a very high energy radiation;

They are not accurate enough so instead of hitting just the tumor, the patient absorbs more radiation than needed through the skin, thus damaging healthy tissue;

They require large and very expensive machinery in big carefully shielded treatment rooms or “vaults”, so they are only available in centrally located rich clinics and hospitals that can afford to build and maintain them;

They are not available to small children under the age of 3, because their bodies are simply too small and weak to withstand this amount of radiation.

The bottom line is: Radiation therapy in its present form, which is one of the only ways to treat cancer, is inaccessible to some people due to their age, location and financial status.

How Mercy Beam will change the game

Due to its low energy requirement, this technology enables a small, light and inexpensive solution in which the cancer is treated accurately with a concentrated radiation at a fraction of the cost of all other methods. The Mercy Beam units can even be assembled in a lorry or van, thus made mobile and able to reach remote or deprived areas. The low energy also makes this treatment safer for everyone and accessible to children under the age of 3. Cancer is a brutal enemy. Mercy Beam makes dealing with it more merciful for everyone.

An Innovative approach to fund raising: C-M-D

Convergent R.N.R needs funding to hasten the Mercy Beam development. In addition to the conventional find raising for equity channels, Convergent R.N.R came up with a unique and innovative idea for raising funds from the public. It’s a twist on crowd funding and they call the model: C-M-D, which stands for “Contribute – Match – Donate”. Simply put – for every cent the public contributes to the project, Convergent R.N.R will match and once the Mercy Beam systems are in serial production, they will donate units, together with the contributors, to hospitals and clinics all over the world. The amount of units donated will be decided according to the amount of money raised.

If a contributor wishes to contribute publicly in someone’s name or memory they are welcome to contact the company and we will publish it on our site and social media.

About Convergent R.N.R

Convergent R.N.R (CRnR) is a medical start-up company developing a new x-ray focusing technology called MercyBeam™ to perform cancer Radiotherapy and Radiosurgery. Established in 2010 in Israel by a team of expert scientists, CRnR developed and patented the said break-through technology utilizing a standard imaging X-ray source to form a converging beam into a volume of treatment rather than the standard diverging or collimated technologies existing today.